French Lebanese Star Trumpeter/Composer Ibrahim Maalouf’s Trumpets of Michel Ange Out Today

Newly Recorded Album Of All Original Material Celebrating the Music of his Lebanese Roots and Ancestry

Watch the Video for "Capitals" (Featuring Trombone Shorty): https://youtu.be/_YCwu7ofAFk

September 20, 2024 - - Trumpeter/composer Ibrahim Maalouf - the French-Lebanese global sensation and prolific artist - has released a new studio album of all original music today entitled Trumpets of Michel-Ange. The album is a celebration of his ancestry and Lebanese roots. Today he has also released a music video for "Capitals," which features Trombone Shorty: https://youtu.be/_YCwu7ofAFk

Trumpets of Michel-Ange is Maalouf's 18th album of all-original music and was recorded in a series of raw, freewheeling sessions captured live without any edits or overdubs. Trumpets of Michel Ange is more than just an album; it's also the name of his wide-ranging new initiative aimed at making the quarter tone trumpet accessible to players around the world through a line of instruments, lessons, and recordings. This trumpet is what has given Maalouf such a distinct sound and an appetite for smashing together the sounds of so many cultures. Special guests on the album include Trombone Shorty as well as Endea Owens, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Matthieu Chedid and Golshifteh Farahani.

Take a listen to Trumpets of Michel Ange and it's clear that Maalouf's excitement and curiosity are as vibrant as ever. Built around a mesmerizing sonic storyline, the album captures the journey of two young lovers who come together to create a family, following them from the celebration of their marriage to the birth of their children and the bittersweet farewell that comes with sending their adult kids off into the world.

"On a symbolic level, this album is a celebration of love and family and the things that parents pass on to their children," Maalouf explains. "On a more literal level, it's a chance for me to turn my father's dream of sharing his quarter tone trumpet with the world into a reality." The album cover features a photo from 1925, of Ibrahim's grandfather's fanfare, taken in the village of Kafarakab, in the Lebanese mountains, where Maalouf was born.

Maalouf also spoke to NPR's 1Aabout his career and the new album, and recently appeared on KEXP to perform several songs including "Fly With Me" and "Au Revoir" from the new album. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YplorxBJptw

Previously released single "Fly With Me"serves as a perfect introduction to what has made Maalouf so widely celebrated: touches of jazz and his rich trumpet tone woven into the sounds and rhythms of his Middle Eastern heritage. The track opens with a hushed, dancing melody from Maalouf's trumpet over plucked guitar; a horn section springs forth for the chorus and builds to an explosive conclusion. He has also shared "Love Anthem,"and "The Smile For Rita."

Listen to the album here: https://idol-io.ffm.to/trumpetsofmichelange

Ever-prolific, Maalouf released another album - Paris In Love in July, which was recorded at his sold-out concert last November at the Accor Arena, the biggest in France. The three-hour concert for 17,000 fans was a celebration of his greatest hits and GRAMMY-nominated album Capacity To Love, and featured a host of special guests including Austin Brown (Michael Jackson's nephew), Sheléa, D Smoke, Matthieu Chedid, Benjamin Epps, Sly Johnson, Dear Silas, Flavia Coelho and French hip hop legends IAM and Oxmo Puccino. Watch "The Pope,"featuring D Smoke.

About Ibrahim Maalouf: Born in war-torn Lebanon and raised in France, he attended the Conservatoire de Paris and earned a reputation as one of the modern era's most promising young classical trumpeters with wins at a string of prestigious international competitions. Unsatisfied with the strictures of classical music, Maalouf began using his quarter tone trumpet to craft an innovative, cross-cultural sound, one that would eventually establish him as a household name in France, where he's been dubbed a Knight of the National Order of Merit and a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Praised as a "virtuoso" by The New York Times, Maalouf has to date released sixteen critically acclaimed albums and performed in more than 40 countries; sold out arenas from Paris to Istanbul; been invited into the inner circle of legendary producer/composer Quincy Jones; raised millions for charitable causes; and collaborated with everyone from Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste to Josh Groban and Sting to A$AP Rocky and Angelique Kidjo. In the last few years alone, Maalouf, has earned back-to-back GRAMMY nominations, composed the score for legendary French director Claude Lelouche's latest film, served on juries at Cannes and the Deauville American Film Festival, performed at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Stevie Wonder, John Legend, and Jacob Collier, and played for an audience of six million in front of the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day.

Trumpets of Michel-AngeTracklist: The Proposal Love Anthem Fly With Me - Feat. Endea Owens Zajal Stranger The Smile of Rita Au Revoir - Feat. Golshifteh Farahani Capitals - featuring Trombone Shorty Timeless - featuring -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Nassim Maalouf, Nael Maalouf

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